Simpler web payments: Introducing the Payment Request API

2016-12-16 KENNETH 0

Simpler web payments: Introducing the Payment Request API We’re thrilled to introduce a preview implementation of the Payment Request API in Microsoft Edge, enabling simpler checkout and payments on the web on Windows 10 PCs and Phones. Support for Payment Request in stable builds will be coming to EdgeHTML 15 in the Creators Update early next year. Payment Request works with Microsoft Wallet on Windows 10 PCs and phones to make ecommerce faster and simpler for customers and merchants alike. You can begin to develop for the Payment Request API today in Microsoft Edge on preview builds, starting with Windows Insider Preview build 14986. The Microsoft Wallet user experience allowing for end to end testing will be available in an upcoming Insider build soon. Conversion rates in the checkout flow are a key measure for ecommerce sites. 46% of e-commerce shoppers abandon the [ more… ]

Docker Swarm Load Balancing with NGINX and NGINX Plus

2016-12-15 KENNETH 0

Docker Swarm Load Balancing with NGINX and NGINX Plus At nginx.conf 2016 in Austin this September, I gave a presentation on using NGINX and NGINX Plus in a Docker Swarm cluster. In this post I discuss how to use NGINX and NGINX Plus for Docker Swarm load balancing in conjunction with the features introduced in Docker 1.12. All files I used during my demo at nginx.conf (and more) are available on GitHub for you to experiment with. Overview Docker version 1.12, released in late July 2016, integrates Docker Engine and Swarm and adds some new orchestration features, to create a platform similar to other container platforms such as Kubernetes. In Docker 1.12, Swarm Mode allows you to combine a set of Docker hosts into a swarm, providing a fault‑tolerant, self‑healing, decentralized architecture. The new platform also makes it easier to set up a Swarm cluster, secures all [ more… ]

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USN-3157-1: Apport vulnerabilities

2016-12-15 KENNETH 0

USN-3157-1: Apport vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3157-1 14th December, 2016 apport vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary Apport could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file. Software description apport – automatically generate crash reports for debugging Details Donncha O Cearbhaill discovered that the crash file parser in Apportimproperly treated the CrashDB field as python code. An attacker coulduse this to convince a user to open a maliciously crafted crash fileand execute arbitrary code with the privileges of that user. This issueonly affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-9949) Donncha O Cearbhaill discovered that Apport did not properly sanitize thePackage and SourcePackage fields in crash files before processing packagespecific hooks. An attacker could [ more… ]

Silicon Valley startup innovates using Surface Book

2016-12-15 KENNETH 0

Silicon Valley startup innovates using Surface Book “He walks off the plane from Tokyo at 3 a.m. and joins my call with Toronto at 5 a.m.,” remarked David Sidhu, VP of customer success at Litmus Automation. David was describing the incredible work ethic of Co-founder and CEO Vatsal Shah, the man behind the rapid growth and development for his Silicon Valley startup, launched in 2014. In three short years, Vatsal has built an incredible team of software engineers, from “a few guys in a room” to a bustling HQ in San Jose and satellite offices in Tokyo and Toronto. Litmus Automation is leading the revolution for “connected things,” IOT for some of the largest manufacturing companies in the world. Renault, Nissan, Texas Instruments and Dell are just a few to leverage products Loop and Loop Edge, a secure cloud based [ more… ]